This page lists useful online tools, not maintained by Gamepedia, which may be useful during the creation, design, and maintenance of a wiki.
Colors
- Adobe Color CC - Color wheel.
- Paletton - Color scheme designer.
- Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator - Create gradients and generate the needed CSS.
Browser add-ons:
- ColorZilla: Pick colors from any web page and instantly copy hex/RGB color codes for them.
CSS tools
- Clip-path generator - Works not for FireFox and Explorer
- Cssplant - has a border-radius-generator and clip-path generator
- About responsive grid system
- calculator - converter has a PX to EM converter and EM to PX converter
- Css animation generator
- Reference
Browser add-ons:
- Stylus (Chrome/Opera) / Stylus (Firefox): Allows live CSS design with instant live previews.
Image borders:
Files
File manipulation
- Bulk Rename Utility - Renames files in bulk and is highly configurable.
- SageThumbs - Adds thumbnails for a ton of image formats in Windows Explorer. Greatly improves efficiency.
Game file extraction
- Unity Studio - Extracts Unity game files. Works with the latest Unity version.
- Unity Assets Explorer 1.3 - Extracts Unity game files. Converts .tex files to .dds. Does not work with Unity 4 yet.
- Unity extraction options - A list of Unity tools available and what they do.
- QuickBMS - File extraction tool. Various scripts to support various engines/games.
- CRYENGINE SDK - Cryengine tools.
- UE Viewer - Unreal Engine extraction tools. Works with UE4, just explicitly specify the engine version in the settings screen.
- 7-Zip - Not sure if absolutely reliable, but it unpacked the cryengine .pak files from Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Fonts
- WhatTheFont - Upload a sample of the font and it identifies the font.
- Identifont - Answer a series of questions about the font and it identifies the font.
- Font Squirrel - Lots of free fonts. 100% free for commercial use - but please ALWAYS read the FAQ and licenses.
- Dafont - Font repository.
- Cool Text - Graphics generator. Set style, font, and other options.
Images
Image Viewer
- Irfan View: Can convert, batch process, play movies and much more. Can't cope with alpha channels when batch converting. Better use: Xnview
Image manipulation
- Shoebox: Extract images from spritesheets, among other features.
- Sprite Vortex: Another sprite sheet manager.
- Alferd Spritesheet Unpacker: Spritesheet extraction.
- Tile Mage: Can split Spritesheets.
- XnViewMP: Image format batch conversion.
- Gimp: The one and only Gimp! Has many plug-ins.
- Krita: Useful for digital paintings, has many brushes and page templates, even offers CMYK for print projects.
- paint.net: Raster graphics editor.
- Waifu2x: Double the size/resolution of illustrated images.
Favicon generators
- ConvertICO
- Real Favicon Generator: A beefier favicon generator with more variations.
- Favicon Generator
- ICO Convert
Clipping
- Clippy: Not supported in Firefox
Compression
- TinyPNG: Compress PNG files as much as possible without sacrificing quality (lossless).
- Compress JPG
- Compress PNG
Convert
Testing
- Mobile Phone Emulator - Test out pages on various phone setups.
- Google Chrome for developers - Additional Developers Tools
- Firefox Developer Edition - Additional Developers Tools
Wiki automation
- AutoWikiBrowser Automate/bot wiki tasks. The manual can be found here. Be sure to get a 6.0 version or higher else the software will not work on Gamepedia wikis.
- Pywikibot - Uses python scripts to automate tasks.
- User:Pcj/CleanupInterwikis.js - clean up inactive interwiki links
- mwclient - Easy-to-use Python library for calling wiki API actions (read, save, etc)
- mwparserfromhell - Python library for manipulating wiki text, making it easy to add, remove, or edit template parameters, section names, etc.